-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 02:10:17AM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > I installed Debian Sarge from my CDs and then did a dist-upgrade to Etch. > I installed a very basic system with the required packages etc. > > Then came the time to install KDE (The GUI Interface I was dying for ;-) ) > But, apt-get install kde ..i thought would pull in all the dependencies > related to KDE i.e. all the xorg packages with all the relevant stuff that > will be required to run KDE. > > But this did not happen. The xfonts-base package was found to be missing and > I > was getting some relevant error, which was fixed once this package was > installed. (Actually, I installed xwindow-system-core) > > So is it a bug that "apt-get install kde" didn't pull in this package by > default? > > Regards, Hi Amit, No, its not a bug but a feature! You can instll xorg (the current X), by using 'apt-get install xorg' which, just like 'kde', is a meta-packge that makes things easier for users. I forget the exact reason, but it has to do with the fact that kde and x dont have to be on the same machine for kde to work, so that kde needs x but not necessarily installed on YOUR machine, thus kde does not require x but suggests x-window-system-core (a basic subset of the total x system), this can be seen by doing 'apt-cache show kde' and look at the 'Suggests:' line. Cheers, Kev - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)
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